“The thing is, that world doesn’t exist. All growing up means is that you realize no one will come along to fix things. No one will come along to save you.”
— Elizabeth Scott (Love You Hate You Miss You)
“The windup bird went on crying, but no one else could hear its call.”
— Haruki Murakami (Another Way to Die)
“The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I’d never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to.”
— Haruki Murakami
“…surrounding us is an ocean of mess and misunderstanding, full of pirates and sharks just waiting to see who slips in first.”
— Sarah Ockler (Fixing Delilah)
“You’ve got to find yourself first. Everything else will follow.”
— Charles de Lint (Dreams Underfoot)
“I found the human heart empty and insipid everywhere except in books.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
“I take a deep breath, count to ten, and bury it, way down deep.”
— Sarah Ockler (Fixing Delilah)
“Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. His thoughts still haunted him.”
— Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven)
Desperate Housewives - 7.15 Farewell Letter
Leaving is never easy, but the time comes when we must move on. So we can leave our childhood behind. So we can let go of the past. So we can be a good parent.
Yes, leaving is never easy, especially for those who have no where else to go.
“He loved to read. He loved words, the way they string together into sentences and stories. He wanted to study them, to know and create them, to share them with the world.”
— Sarah Ockler (Twenty Boy Summer)
“She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn’t her parents’ and it wasn’t her friends: It was her own.”
— Ann Brashares (Forever In Blue)
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Heartbreak Library (2008)
This was all an illusion that turned into an obsession.
